ingest
ingested; ingesting; ingests
When you ingest something, you swallow it or otherwise consume it. If you don't ingest enough iron, you'll feel tired and weak and you'll look pale.
Trees ingest carbon dioxide, and humans ingest the oxygen that trees in turn produce. We also ingest a lot of other things, like French fries, ice cream, and root beer. You can also use this word to mean "take in information," like when you ingest the details of your history book. Ingest has a Latin root, ingestus, "poured in," from in-, "into," and gerere, "to carry."
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serve oneself to, or consume regularly
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hit
consume to excess
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cannibalise, cannibalize
eat human flesh
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habituate, use
take or consume (regularly or habitually)
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eat
eat a meal; take a meal
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eat
take in solid food
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drink, imbibe
take in liquids
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booze, drink, fuddle
consume alcohol
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partake, touch
consume
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eat, feed
take in food; used of animals only
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fill, replete, sate, satiate
fill to satisfaction
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sample, taste, try, try out
take a sample of
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sop up, suck in, take in, take up
take up as if with a sponge
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smoke
inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
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do drugs, drug
use recreational drugs
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get down, swallow
pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
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sup
take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
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take away, take out
buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
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victual
take in nourishment
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wash down
eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically
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dine in, eat in
eat at home
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dine out, eat out
eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
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dine
have supper; eat dinner
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picnic
eat alfresco, in the open air
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eat
take in solid food
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fress, gluttonise, gluttonize
eat a lot and without restraint
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wolf, wolf down
eat hastily
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slurp
eat or drink noisily
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swill, swill down
drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
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suck
draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
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guggle, gurgle
drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
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sip
drink in sips
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guzzle
drink greedily or as if with great thirst
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lap, lap up, lick
take up with the tongue
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tank
consume excessive amounts of alcohol
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port
drink port
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claret
drink claret
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bar hop, pub-crawl
go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk
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bib, tipple
drink moderately but regularly
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drink, tope
drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
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break bread
have a meal, usually with company
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receive
partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
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fare
eat well
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dig in, pitch in
eat heartily
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nosh, snack
eat a snack; eat lightly
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peck, peck at, pick at
eat like a bird
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peck, pick up
eat by pecking at, like a bird
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bolt, gobble
eat hastily without proper chewing
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bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel in
eat a large amount of food quickly
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nibble, pick, piece
eat intermittently; take small bites of
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ruminate
chew the cuds
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drain the cup, drink up
drink to the last drop
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mess
eat in a mess hall
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board
lodge and take meals (at)
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forage
wander and feed
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raven
feed greedily
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lunch
take the midday meal
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brunch
eat a meal in the late morning
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breakfast
eat an early morning meal
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banquet, feast, junket
partake in a feast or banquet
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suckle
suck milk from the mother's breasts
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hit it up, inebriate, soak, souse
become drunk or drink excessively
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wine
drink wine
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dip, dunk
dip into a liquid while eating
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binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
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cloy, pall
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
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degust
taste with relish
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devour, guttle, pig, raven, scarf
eat greedily
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eat up, finish, polish off
finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
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consume, devour, down, go through
eat immoderately
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chain-smoke
smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one
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puff, whiff
smoke and exhale strongly
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inhale
draw deep into the lungs by breathing
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inject
take by injection
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snort, take a hit
inhale through the nose
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base, free-base
use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
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drop
take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
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dope
take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
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gulp, quaff, swig
to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
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belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off
drink down entirely
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bolt
swallow hastily
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fill, fill up
eat until one is sated
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carry, hold
drink alcohol without showing ill effects
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browse, crop, graze, pasture, range
feed as in a meadow or pasture
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take up mentally
Vocabulary lists containing ingest
After twelve-year-old Jake accidentally eats ingestible information pills that he mistakes for jelly beans, he becomes the smartest kid in the world and must use his new brain power to help save his middle school from the evil vice principals' dastardly plot.
Awake or asleep, conscious or unconscious, there's always a lot going on in our bodies. Some of these words describe processes we can't see, and others are technical names for ordinary actions or occurrences.
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